How to Use speaking voice in a Sentence

speaking voice

noun
Definition of speaking voicenext
  • My rap voice is just a hair above my speaking voice, but Pooh’s voice cuts through everything.
    — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
  • So, how does someone present their speaking voice with all that knowledge?
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
  • Lader began with Lupone’s speaking voice, then rehabbed her singing voice.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The generative text evokes a feeling in me not unlike the revulsion of hearing one’s own speaking voice in a recording.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • This production pairs a second, hearing actor with deaf principals as a singing and speaking voice.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2024
  • That’s also why Butler mimicked Skarsgård’s speaking voice while crafting his own accent for Feyd-Rautha.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Even parents with greater bandwidth (which Miss Manners assumes to mean more time for parenting rather than a louder speaking voice) do not teach everything at once.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • Her singing voice is huge, gorgeous, and pliable—effortlessly leaping from a belt to a shimmer—and her speaking voice is wonderfully distinctive.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Though Bedard provided the speaking voice of the character, Judy Kuhn sang all of Pocahontas' musical numbers.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Monroe’s signature breathy speaking voice was actually a tactic the actress used to overcome a childhood stutter.
    — Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Cave’s sometimes thin and creaky, sometimes sonorous and self-consciously refined speaking voice certainly had its hypnotic qualities.
    — Mark Mordue, SPIN, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Randall said McCarthy’s speaking voice was also memorable.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • Few living film directors have a more instantly recognizable speaking voice than Werner Herzog.
    — Farran Smith Nehme, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023

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